In this episode we talk with Chairman of the IIMCIP, Ajay Jain, who has been through forty years of entrepreneurship and is now paying it forward as a professor and startup mentor. He talks about how the North-East part of India is going to attract several startups in the years to come and why IIMCIP is playing a vital role in its growth. @iimcalcutta

00:00 - Introduction to the podcast
01:21 - Learning from the Corporate world
05:20 - Career in Kuwait and the stepping stone to business.
08:44 - Why Institutions will create social impact going forward.
14:33 - The balance to create innovation that makes impact.
18:11 - Academia/Corporate partnership - will it become mainstream.
23:12 - Carrying empathy to build a business.
29:00 - Supporting the North-East Corridor to become a startup centre.
33:03 - Why North East supports some great opportunities.
35:55 - The North East will change going forward.
41:03 - Role of government, going beyond grants.
49:00 - What does it take for innovation to work in the future
54:42 - Building future leaders.

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In this episode I talk with Vivek Varshney, the founder of SpeEdLabs, a test prep company that has survived the test of being a startup and is now growing to become a preferred partner for schools in smaller towns. How did Vivek and team do this, lets find out.

00:00 - Introduction.
01:22 - Being an IIT/IIM grad and going on to set up a startup.
05:25 - Education is the only currency to come out of poverty.
10:30 - Building a startup is all about product market fit, the first customer.
15:30 - Outcomes decide the future of a startup, why B2B worked.
20:09 - The elements that worked for SpeEdLabs.
30:00 - How should one prepare for tests?
34:00 - Having the playbook ready?
42:00 - Why schools are going to enable parents?
45:33 - The AI in the app and the future playbook.
49:50 - How is the SpeEdLabs journey going into AI?
55:15 - The future of education in India.

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In this episode we talk about the growth of an idea, how Pradyumna went from being a back bencher to setting up an advisory/investment banking firm that works with the brightest startups and large corporations.

This interview covers his student days and also covers how investment banking works.

00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - The objective of the Disha Series with Mentorsforkids.in - an introduction by Pavan Sharma, partner at BCL India
04:00 - The reason why MentorsForKids wants employability.
06:00 - The journey of Pradyumna
16:20 - Building a network for I-Banking
24:15 - Working with engineers to build business, commerce students deploy money.
27:28 - Why AI is expensive and how Prequate works with technology.
41:00 - Being ready for work life.
45:00 - Conversation with students

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